Traduction de «Donner naissance au droit de priorité » (Français → Anglais) :

We have to ensure that a revitalised, redefined Single Market does happen and does not get sidelined.

This violates the right to freedom from discrimination and may also give rise to dangerous tendencies.

2. Every filing that is equivalent to a regular national filing under the national law of the State where it was made or under bilateral or multilateral agreements shall be recognised as giving rise to a right of priority.

The European Patent Convention lays down a single procedure for examining applications for patents (carried out by the European Patent Office (hereinafter "the EPO")), which makes it possible to have a range of national patents governed by national and Community law.

In certain situations where the prejudice to the rightholder would be minimal, no obligation for payment may arise.

2. Stresses the importance of having the necessary new regulation and rules, which take due account of the convergence in this field, in place during the year 2001; highlights the urgent need to devote special attention to implementing the existing directives, so that major differences in the liberalisation of national markets do not become entrenched, thereby hampering the implementation of the new rules; agrees with the principles of regulation and the description of the regulatory framework as formulated by the Commission and that, while there will be a general trend to replacing sector-specific regulation with rules based on the principles of general competition law, sector-specific regulation will still be required, for example for t ...[+++]he regulation of markets where effective competition is unlikely to emerge and for the achievement of certain public policy objectives; believes that there must be periodic reassessments in order to determine the extent to which a need for sector-specific regulation still exists and to make it possible to react to rapid market developments; therefore considers that the period of validity of the Directives which will follow the Review must be limited until 2005 and that, after 2005, there must be a reassessment in order to determine whether a need for sector-specific regulation still exists or whether a new need for sector-specific regulation has arisen; believes that one method of regulation is to further develop recommendations adopted at EU level and implemented by NRAs;